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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    29 August 2010
    13 August 2009
    ISBN:
    9780511693526
    9781108002974
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511693526
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    Weight & Pages:
    Dimensions:
    (216 x 140 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.42kg, 332 Pages
    • Subjects:
    American History: General Interest, Area Studies, American Studies, Historical Geography, History, Early Republic and Antebellum History
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - North American History
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    Subjects:
    American History: General Interest, Area Studies, American Studies, Historical Geography, History, Early Republic and Antebellum History
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - North American History
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    James Dawson Burn's 1865 book endeavours to give a true account of the industrial, social, moral and political state of the working class in America, and is addressed partly to intending emigrants. His study examines the people themselves, as well as the circumstances that influenced their conduct during the Civil War, and draws comparisons between their condition and that of the working class in Europe. Burns, writing from the perspective of an English visitor to the United States, remarks that upon seeing the visible social comfort there, he came to believe that lower-class Americans of the period were far in advance of their peers in his own country. Given that American rights and liberties provided such a strong inducement for the labouring population of Europe to flock to its shores, Burns intended his research to serve as a guide for what they could and could not expect.

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